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LOCO El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.

Trailing twelve months to 2026-07-01 · as filed 2026-08-07, not restated
Consumer Disc

Scale

Market cap
$467m
Revenue TTM
$501m
Net income TTM
$35m
Free cash flow
$41m
Composite score
63.2
Sector rank
#2430

Valuation

P / E
13.4
EV / EBITDA
7.0
EV / sales
1.0
FCF yield
8.78%
Earnings yield vs 10-yr
2.74pp

Earnings yield vs 10-yr compares what the business earns per pound invested against the 4.73% a 10-year US Treasury note pays for no equity risk. Negative means you are paying up front for growth not yet delivered.

Quality and growth

Net margin
7.0%
EBITDA margin
13.8%
ROE
11.0%
ROIC
15.8%
Revenue growth
4.4%

Insider activity, last 90 days

Net open-market
$-9.60m
Buyers
0
Sellers
1

Open-market purchases and sales only. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded: they are how people are paid, not what they think.

What management said

Our revenue per restaurant is typically lower in the first and fourth quarters due to reduced January and December transactions, and higher in the second and third quarters. We plan to continue to expand our business, drive restaurant sales growth, and enhance our competitive positioning by executing the following five key strategies: To increase comparable restaurant sales, we plan to increase customer frequency, attract new customers, and improve per-person spend. Highlights and Trends Revenue Overview For the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended July 1, 2026, our total revenue was $129.6 million and $255.8 million, respectively. …El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., 10-Q, period ended 2026-07-01, filed 2026-08-07

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